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2007-Jan-10 10:57 am
For once, he is right.......Cell phone service has a high churn rate. People can switch on a whim and not have to worry about monopolies or duopolies. Not so with cable TV services. Also, Comcast is not going to run a help desk just for the phone. Sprint will handle this and if you piss off a customer over his cell phone service, will he blame Comcast since they sold him the service? And, if a customer cancels the cell phone due to poor service, will that affect the pricing of the 3 other services involved? Another thing to consider is the normal 2 year contracts for cell phones. Cable, DSL and DSS services are normally 1 year. This could get interesting. | |
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Re: For once, he is right.......why anyone would sign up for quadruple play anyway is beyond me...It doesn't save you that much money (if any) and you get the same, crappy service from one provider. Yippee! | |
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morbo
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2007-Jan-10 12:34 pm
Re: For once, he is right.......plus a contract for all of them. boo. | |
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I wish they would spend 2.4 billion on docis upgrade or something in the speed catagory. | |
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Trinijoy Premium Member join:2005-09-12 Brick, NJ |
Trinijoy
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2007-Jan-10 11:39 am
YEAH!I LOVE BLUNT CEO's.
You go boy! | |
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Re: YEAH!Indeed. Brian usually sounds like he's been smokin' a blunt... | |
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LostMile
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2007-Jan-10 2:10 pm
Re: YEAH!At least Brian's not trying to shove HDTV and Inet down a mile of twisted pair. | |
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Re: YEAH!I wondered how you were doing over there. Nice to see you again.
Somehow you don't seem to get that shoving HDTV and Inet down a mile of twisted pair is as easy as shoving it down a mile of RG6, but hey, you don't really care about facts anyway.
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| | | | fiberguy2My views are my own. Premium Member join:2005-05-20
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Re: YEAH!said by RadioDoc:Somehow you don't seem to get that shoving HDTV and Inet down a mile of twisted pair is as easy as shoving it down a mile of RG6, but hey, you don't really care about facts anyway. So.. what ARE the facts? First off.. they aren't shoving HDTV *AND* Internet down twisted pair.. they're shoving internet down twisted pairs and THEN shoving HDTV down that same stream. Cable is 'shoving' multiple channels of HDTV on a pipe AND shoving Internet as well. Shall we get into how many HDTVs on that twisted pair can actually view that stream on that twisted pair? I have 6 HDTVs in my home... how many can I have with twisted pair.. and how many can I have with that last mile of RG6? ..but you really don't care about facts anyway. | |
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| | | | LostMile Premium Member join:2002-06-07 Coloma, MI |
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said by RadioDoc:I wondered how you were doing over there. Nice to see you again. I'm doing fine. Thanks for asking. And you? said by RadioDoc:Somehow you don't seem to get that shoving HDTV and Inet down a mile of twisted pair is as easy as shoving it down a mile of RG6, but hey, you don't really care about facts anyway. Like they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Comcast keeps increasing my Inet speed and channel lineup every year...even out here in rural backwater Coloma. Comcast advertises 8Mb yet lately I've been seeing 10-12 Mb. Damn coax! OTOH, all I can get from AT&T's twisted phone system is ~40kb...and that's being generous. What ever happened to Eddie's magic DSL line extenders? Since you say twisted pair and coax are equal, I can only conclude Team Comcast is a bit smarter than Team AT&T. | |
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| | | | ke4pym Premium Member join:2004-07-24 Charlotte, NC |
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said by RadioDoc:down a mile of RG6, but hey, you don't really care about facts anyway. Got news for you. But they're not shoving anything down a mile of RG6. Unless it is a mom-n-pop shop, they're using higher grade cable and RG6 from the curb to your home. | |
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Re: YEAH!Come take a look at what Comcast is using in this system then...it's RG-6 with a messenger embedded. There's about 120 feet of it coiled up in the alley behind my office where it snapped in half two years ago. I had to get it out of the alley since Comcast couldn't be bothered to send someone out to clean it up. Even a tech who came by to disconnect a tap at the same pole didn't do anything about it despite me pointing it out to them. "We don't consider that a priority" were his exact words.
Was probably pissed that the last of eight customers on that tap had just gone to satellite... | |
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mob (banned)On the next level.. join:2000-10-07 San Jose, CA |
mob (banned)
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2007-Jan-10 11:49 am
I am unimpressed with ComcastThat is all. | |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu? MVM join:2003-09-26 Hercules, CA |
Well...... so much for me getting a cell then. Not that I actually have a use for a cell, but it would have been just tacked onto the Comcast bill.
Ah well. | |
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Stefania
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2007-Jan-10 1:52 pm
Re: Well...You don't have a mobile? You do know this is 2007, right? ~_^ | |
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Re: Well...said by Stefania:You don't have a mobile? You do know this is 2007, right? ~_^ I dont own one either your point? | |
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Don't go nowhere... and I already have a camera, I surf the web on laptops, don't have anyone to call anyways.
The cell from Comcast was mere;y so I could have yet another toy. Not because I need one. | |
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Stefania
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2007-Jan-13 4:02 pm
Re: Well..."the web"?... sounds very lonely... | |
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Unimpressed by your employees...Maybe if you offered more salary and benefits you would hire more desirable folks. | |
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caco
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2007-Jan-10 12:20 pm
Re: Unimpressed by your employees...free cable- discounted ppv and hd/dvrs boxes free high speed discounted phone service 401k match up to 6%-Fidelity average health care cost for employees ESPP at 15% discount tons of vendor discounts for working for Comcast-Verizon,Sprint,Cingular,Apple,HP,Dell 64 hours of flex time during the year if not used they pay you for it vacation days on par with other big companies stock options depending on time with company | |
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Re: Unimpressed by your employees...*High Five to fellow employee JSRoman*
I actually love my job thank ya very much, and love the benefits of it....
On point: Actually I wouldn't be surprised if we did have some Inhouse Tech Support Training for the Sprint Cell Phones, I would be cool with learning it for sure. I can't speak for the test markets, but if it launches nationally, I suspect a Job Posting For CAEs in Wireless. Time will tell.... -FG | |
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Sabre
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2007-Jan-10 12:46 pm
Re: Unimpressed by your employees...I'll third that. I don't work for Comcast anymore, but I left because I couldn't get the promotion I wanted in-house, not because of the benefits. Comcast's benefits, as outlined by JSRoman, are indeed excellent. For all their faults (and most every huge company does indeed have many faults), they're a good company to work for. Though I'm not sure how well cellphone service will fit them anyway. Now if they were to look into Wimax integration, that might be interesting. | |
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I said desirable folks. Not just anybody | |
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and your point?Nick Saban also said he wasn't leaving the Dolphins. | |
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mrks
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2007-Jan-10 2:08 pm
life @ Comcastjust left Comcast to work at Verizon, it's a much better gig | |
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quad play for $100 would be worth itdepends on pricing. $100/month for phone, long distance, cableTV and broadband may not be worth it to many who only need 2 of those service, but if you throw in a celphone using the same long distance, and a reasonable minimum airtime minutes, for the same $100, then you have something even I would go for. | |
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Re: quad play for $100 would be worth itsheesh, you want a gold plated dvr while you're at it?? Free I'm sure too, huh? come on now... be realistic here... can you get all four services with any providers for that price? even mix and matching you wont find all 4 products for anywhere near $100. Also, Comcast doesn't require a contract for video, HSI, or CDV... Mobile access is the only thing with a contract. | |
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u3912974 join:2007-07-31 San Francisco, CA |
damn i'm readycomcast bill $130 (trip play) att wireless bill $125 (cingular 8525 with $40 talk, $40 ultd wireless and $10 TV)
I want comcast to offer a better phone deal for wireless | |
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